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Phylogeography of lions (Panthera leo ssp.) reveals three distinct taxa and a late Pleistocene reduction in genetic diversity
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2009 , Article)
Lions were the most widespread carnivores in the late Pleistocene, ranging from southern Africa to the southern USA, but little is known about the evolutionary relationships among these Pleistocene populations or the ...
Mitochondrial phylogeography illuminates the origin of the extinct caspian tiger and its relationship to the amur tiger
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Public Library of Science
, 2009 , Article)
The Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) flourished in Central Asian riverine forest systems in a range disjunct from that of other tigers, but was driven to extinction in 1970 prior to a modern molecular evaluation. ...
The Gulf: A young sea in decline
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2009 , Article)
This review examines the substantial changes that have taken place in marine habitats and resources of the Gulf over the past decade. The habitats are especially interesting because of the naturally high levels of temperature ...
Effects of treated municipal wastewater and sea water irrigation on soil and plant characteristics
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Springer Nature
, 2009 , Article)
The increasing need for water in the arid areas of the world has resulted in the emergence of wastewater application for agriculture and landscape. Using treated wastewater in agricultural irrigation can provide more ...
Phylogenetic analyses of peanut resistance gene candidates and screening of different genotypes for polymorphic markers
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Elsevier
, 2009 , Article)
The nucleotide-binding-site-leucine-rich-repeat (NBS–LRR)-encoding gene family has attracted much research interest because approximately 75% of the plant disease resistance genes that have been cloned to date are from ...
Molecular phylogeny of Qatari date palm genotypes using Simple Sequence Repeats markers
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Asian Network for Scientific Information
, 2009 , Article)
The objectives of the present study is to analyze the genetic diversity among 15 different cultivars of date palm at the experimental farm of Qatar University using Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers and find out the ...
Maintaining the genetic health of putative Barbary lions in captivity: an analysis of Moroccan Royal Lions
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Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
, 2009 , Article)
The last representatives of the Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo), once numerous in North Africa but exterminated from the wild by the 1940s, are believed to be the captive lions descended from the Moroccan Royal Collection, ...